A SOUTH GERMAN BAROQUE BRASS-MOUNTED STAINED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE CABINET

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A SOUTH GERMAN BAROQUE BRASS-MOUNTED STAINED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE CABINET
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY, AUGSBURG

With hinged rectangular cushion-moulded pediment above a pair of cupboard doors inlaid with scrolling foliate strapwork and enclosing two long drawers panelled to similate three short drawers centering four short drawers centering a cupboard door, each inlaid with ? and various forest animals, reversing to architectural scenes with musicians, sides and back similarly inlaid with strapwork and fitted with wrought-iron loop handles-18in. (48cm.) high, 30½in. (52cm.) wide, 12in. (30cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The travelling cabinet offered in this lot belongs to a group of South German Furniture mainly from Swabia, Bavaria and Tirol inlaid with stylized ruins and characteristically elaborate scrollwork defining space and perspective (see H. Eickel, Der Wrangelschrank Im Landesmuseum Für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Münster, n.d., pp. 139-145 and L. Möller, Der Wrangel-Schrank, 1984, pp. 5-14).

The distinctive 'Ruinenarchitektur' marquetry is believed to be based on etchings executed by Leonard Thiry and Ducerleau in 1550 as well as the Geometria und Perspektiva Etlicher Zerbrochener Gebew, a design book of drawings published in 1567 by Augsburg cabinetmaker Lorenz Stöer (see H. Kreisel, Die Kunst Des Deutschen Möbels, 1986, vol. I. pp. 85-87).